Numbers 18:16

You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.

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WEBBE

You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.

BSB

You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.

KJV

And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

ASV

And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary ( the same is twenty gerahs).

BBE

Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

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וּפְדוּיָו u·fe·du·yav and redemption price its H6299 מִבֶּן־ mi·ben- from a son of H1121 חֹדֶשׁ cho·desh a month H2320 תִּפְדֶּה tif·deh you will redeem [it] H6299 בְּעֶרְכְּךָ be·'er·ke·kha by valuation your H6187 כֶּסֶף ke·sef [will be] silver H3701 חֲמֵשֶׁת cha·me·shet five H2568 שְׁקָלִים she·ka·lim shekels H8255 בְּשֶׁקֶל be·she·kel by [the] shekel of H8255 הַקֹּדֶשׁ ha·ko·desh the holy place H6944 עֶשְׂרִים 'es·rim [is] twenty H6242 גֵּרָה ge·rah gerah[s] H1626 הוּא hu' it H1931

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 8–19

All believers are spiritual priests, and God has promised to take care of them. Godliness has the promise of the life that now is. And from the provision here made for the priests, the apostle shows that it is the duty of christian churches to maintain their ministers. Scandalous maintenance makes scandalous ministers. The priests were to be wholly devoted to their ministry, not diverted from it, or disturbed in it, by worldly care or business. Also, that they might be examples of living by faith, not only in God's providence, but in his ordinances. The best should be offered for the first-fruits unto the Lord. Those who think to save, by putting God off with the refuse, deceive themselves, for God is not mocked.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.